Skeletons unearthed from graves in southeastern Europe bear the earliest known evidence of horse riding in the archaeological record, new research has revealed.

The world's first horseback riders swept across the steppe roughly 5,000 ... The new analysis came from 217 human skeletons from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, a geographical area that runs roughly ...

But their analysis of 475 ancient horse genomes showed a notable change around 4,200 years ago. That’s when a specific lineage that first arose in what’s known as the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, a ...

However, modern scholars differentiate between the “Scythians proper” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe and related but distinct peoples such as the Saka (to the east), the Massagetae, and the ...

Ötzi was balding, dark-skinned and didn’t have ancestors from the Caspian steppe Though the Iceman mummy’s skin is obviously dark, scientists used to think that was a result of being frozen ...

For over two hundred years, the origin of the Indo-European languages has been disputed. Two main theories have recently dominated this debate: the ‘Steppe’ hypothesis, which proposes an origin in the ...